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by gord 18y ago
No. Better search does mean beating google. But you don't have to play within Googles rules.. theres lots of territory between text search [=cool] and Natural Language [=sucks, to a first order approximation]. For example, just treat data
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by gord 18y ago
Hmm... I guess theres that line between getting things done, co-opting people, selling your idea to them on the one hand and on the other hand theres being a manipulative jerk. 'Michiavellian' has some pretty harsh manipulative connotations
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by gord 18y ago
I guess "Relentlessly Resourceful" is the same thing as "Get sh*t done". (PGs 'being an animal' is the internal version, while GSD is external.) I'm not sure it can be taught, after the age of five. In my experience, it can be latent or sim
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by gord 18y ago
I think medicine has helped a _lot_ of 5 and 6 year olds... Don't take my God comments too much to heart - Id vigorously defend your right to believe in whatever you like.
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by gord 18y ago
This is sage advice - but you just shouldn't have to do all that crud. It assumes that the structure of your data is knowable upfront - but most businesses just discover this as they go along. So the first quote is brilliant - you have to k
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by gord 18y ago
agreed.. but thankfully captain kirk gets to speak and thus his dignity is preserved.. as befits his stature as ambassador for all humanity.
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by gord 18y ago
Well one can always ask just how long did god intend humans to live? Was it 30, 60, 90, 120, 150 or 180 yrs? I think well see all of those as possible answers, given the advance of medicine and engineering. If by god you mean "stochastic c
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by gord 18y ago
I found this just hilarious after having read Michael Lewis' book "The Future Just Happened". On the one hand hes totally right.. on the other hand hes totally missing the point, completely obsessed with blatant self promotion. ugh. Then we
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by gord 18y ago
Id have to tip my hat to this... Ive written a lot of C++, it was 'the one true way'.. but then I did see alot of people using python, ruby.. I learned a bit of lisp, and kind of de-conditioned myself. If your not gonna use Lisp/arc/scheme/
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by gord 18y ago
I scanned this, was about to click-onwards, then read - "Instant Real-time price negotiation resulting in Instant Gratification for consumer" I think that is the one line gotcha.. it seems an obvious thing to build a new product arou
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by gord 18y ago
To satisfy some inherent need to leave a mark on the world and to make something from nothing. Mostly, to see what _can_ be done.
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by gord 18y ago
I truly, honestly believe that as of today many people just cannot get to their data. For end users that is having good web/UI tools to help them. Another part of it is allowing programmers to express their ideas about data in a better way
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by gord 18y ago
thanks, I had a look at gsn - That would be the middleware to gather the data from sensor networks... ..whereas my interest is in how to deal with the fire-hose of ~10Gb data per day, once you have 100Gb of it on disk and more streaming in
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Ask HN - stream database open source hackers unite
2 points by gord 18y ago|2 comments